Political comment, revised January 25Joe Martin
Revised January 30
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On January 25th a friend posted some comments on my Facebook posting concering a film on Tibet, which had provided a link to excerpts from a new film about the Tibet autonomous region. His comments in many ways atempt to look at the Tibetan situation from the Chinese point of view, though I am sure there are many points of view in China, and the recent arrest of yet another Chinese dissident intellectual who wants the PRC to reconsider its treatment of Tibet is a case in point. However, my friend is an expert on China, so I moved the exchange to Peace and Pieces along with my response.
I have now removed my response to his critique of my comment on the Tibetan film. I have come to feel I cannot use my dominant position on my own blog to debate friends or close associates. That is how I will proceed with this blog. Anyone, may of course, submit a posting or response to what they read here. My friend's original comments, are below.
I hope soon to share my thoughts on Peace and Pieces, on the teachings of the Dalai Lama, which might one day do much good for social consciousness and spiritual well-being in a China: a China that he has repeatedly stated will include Tibet. -- JM
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ORIGINAL POSTING BY AUTHOR ON FACEBOOK
The grinding oppression of the people of Tibet under occupation -- being overwhelmed by calculated Sino-ization, a wave of Chinese immigration and Chinese control of all governmment and infrastructure, has not slackened. The unwillingness of the Party and the bureaucracy to negotiate autonomy and self-determination as a part of China -- the Dalai Lama's proposal -- reveals an astonishing lack of conscience, and an intolerance for large and coherent ethnic groups in China outside of the Han majority by the government. Courageous films like this one, for which the director must remain in prison for 6 years while his family has received no notification concerning his disappearance or location by the Chinese authorities, represent one of the few means of getting the truth out. There is less free media coverage in Tibet than other occupied peoples get -- even the Palestinians. To occupy a people and dominate their culture corrupts the spirit of great nations, whether it be China or the US or Russia: it asks for an increasing numbness to b... [Cut off by Facebook]
http://www.nomadsland.com/video/leaving-fear-behind-save-tibet/
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On January 25th a friend posted some comments on my Facebook posting concering a film on Tibet, which had provided a link to excerpts from a new film about the Tibet autonomous region. His comments in many ways atempt to look at the Tibetan situation from the Chinese point of view, though I am sure there are many points of view in China, and the recent arrest of yet another Chinese dissident intellectual who wants the PRC to reconsider its treatment of Tibet is a case in point. However, my friend is an expert on China, so I moved the exchange to Peace and Pieces along with my response.
I have now removed my response to his critique of my comment on the Tibetan film. I have come to feel I cannot use my dominant position on my own blog to debate friends or close associates. That is how I will proceed with this blog. Anyone, may of course, submit a posting or response to what they read here. My friend's original comments, are below.
I hope soon to share my thoughts on Peace and Pieces, on the teachings of the Dalai Lama, which might one day do much good for social consciousness and spiritual well-being in a China: a China that he has repeatedly stated will include Tibet. -- JM
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ORIGINAL POSTING BY AUTHOR ON FACEBOOK
The grinding oppression of the people of Tibet under occupation -- being overwhelmed by calculated Sino-ization, a wave of Chinese immigration and Chinese control of all governmment and infrastructure, has not slackened. The unwillingness of the Party and the bureaucracy to negotiate autonomy and self-determination as a part of China -- the Dalai Lama's proposal -- reveals an astonishing lack of conscience, and an intolerance for large and coherent ethnic groups in China outside of the Han majority by the government. Courageous films like this one, for which the director must remain in prison for 6 years while his family has received no notification concerning his disappearance or location by the Chinese authorities, represent one of the few means of getting the truth out. There is less free media coverage in Tibet than other occupied peoples get -- even the Palestinians. To occupy a people and dominate their culture corrupts the spirit of great nations, whether it be China or the US or Russia: it asks for an increasing numbness to b... [Cut off by Facebook]
http://www.nomadsland.com/video/leaving-fear-behind-save-tibet/
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From the film website: “Leaving Fear Behind” is a heroic film shot by a Tibetan inside Tibet, to bring Tibetan voices to the Beijing Olympic Games. The filmmaker spend five months traveling in Tibet on a motorcycle and interviewing hundreds of ordinary Tibetans about their views about the Dalai Lama.
Filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen, the Tibetan filmmaker is currently in Chinese detention, has been sentenced to six years imprisonment by the provincial court in Xining (capital of Qinghai province). The sentencing took place on 28 December 2009 but his relatives in Xining were neither informed about the trial nor the verdict.
Filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen, the Tibetan filmmaker is currently in Chinese detention, has been sentenced to six years imprisonment by the provincial court in Xining (capital of Qinghai province). The sentencing took place on 28 December 2009 but his relatives in Xining were neither informed about the trial nor the verdict.
